re: It's not their fault they're fat! NPR edition

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Just a calculation of height, age and weight doesn't account for muscle mass or fitness or if your bone structure

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Wow, riveting analysis.

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I do work out

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What's your bf %?

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15 lbs of blubber to lose.

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I'd bet you do.

If you truly workout, you should be able to understand that you are an outlier. This is an incredibly simple concept.

As a person of size myself I always try to seek out doctors of size because they are down with the struggle. These little stick doctors don’t know what it’s like to be a full sized human

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I dropped down to 195 and looked like death was coming.

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No you didn't.

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Even a poster above me brags about his willpower yet is only able to lose weight and not keep it off.

The only difference between people today and people 50 years ago, a thinner generation, are external influences. The problem is multifactorial. If you take your normalization glasses off and zoom out, you can see the parabolic deviation from the ways we have lived for hundreds of thousands of years. We traded interdependence and purpose for consumerism and radical individualism. This is western modernity.

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It's hard to keep it off because it's much easier when you're busy with kids to just grab fast food or pizza. Nothing like getting home at 6 only to realize you forgot to take the ground beef out of the freezer. The difference is we now have a sugar diet. Everything has a sugar in it. Once you start watching what you eat, you realize you're in for basically cooking your own food for as long as you can keep it up. Discipline is hard and you're right... we're conditioned at every turn to take the easy way out.

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I believe it assumes that most people carry very little muscle mass.

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because they dont. Last study i saw estimated only 12% of the population does any form of resistance training atleast once per week and less than 10% lift weights once a week

if less than 10% of your population is doing any form of lifting what do you expect. Less than 5% are actually lifting weights in a progessive manner consistenly enough to accumulate any real muscle, atleast enough to throw off the BMI to any significant degree


so bmi is accurate for 90-95% of the population

why would we not use it to track the population as a whole?

all the guys in here talk about looking like a skeleton at certain weights, yet would love to look like they did in HS.....newsflash....that skeleton look you talk about....thats the look you had in HS and you didnt look like a skeleton, you looked in shape.

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Usually only eats one full meal a day (lunch), and sometimes fixes something small (like a sandwich or something) in the evenings.

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this just doesn't make sense...he must snack or do something else to struggle to keep his weight down

It’s so gross how our government is pushing people systemically into being lazy, pathetic, disgusting pieces of mentally ill shite and certain people eat it up so they won’t have to experience any type of discomfort in the form of hard work, ever.

If you eat fewer calories than you burn, you will lose weight. The misconception comes from the fact that most people completely ignore resting metabolic rate where every pound of muscle burns 6 calories per day. Most people who “stay soooo active but can’t lose weight” are doing a bunch of walking or jogging and have zero muscle mass under all of their fat.

If I’m moderately fit and have 20 pounds of muscle on my body that you don’t have, I’m burning 40,000+ calories per year that you’re not just by existing. That’s 20 full days of food that I can eat and still break even.

People who work out to gain muscle year in and year out, eat a reasonable amount of calories, and don’t eat a shite ton of junk food will look good. This is a 100% undeniable, unwavering, scientific fact. So sad how many people are handcuffing themselves in this thread and pretending that they’re fat because they have bad genes and not because they can’t stay disciplined for years on end

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neighborhood design, food insecurity, and access to fresh produce

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Buzzwords for racism...

If you can get to the stores to protest and can get to the government offices to establish and maintain handouts, you can get to the store for groceries if you skip the fast food joints.

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stigma can cause weight gain

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Stigma = Weight Gain?? They removed the middle part... Stigma = Behavioral Decisions. Behavioral Decisions = Weight Gain.

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, I dropped down to 195 and looked like death was coming.

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I gave up eating twinkies with every meal and I dropped down to 195 - no one recognized me!! But I switched to Swiss cake rolls